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Is the definition of electioneering "the process of doing electiony-things?" or a "vague fluffy dance"? Reviewing a cover by: The Portland Cello Project & Friends

EXCLUSIVE! At the end of our conversation, listen to a new tune just recorded on July 19! It will release at The Cello Goodbye show on Sunday. Cellist Skip vonKuske is in the Artichoke Music Café, not his first time here but it's a special occasion. Skip is moving out of Oregon after a long run as one of the founders of the Portland Cello Project, a solo performer and member of many other bands and ensembles playing all kinds of music over the past few decades. He's staging a farewell show on Sunday, July 23 at the Star Theater with a vast array of musicians and bands Skip has played with. It's called Cello Goodbye. Skip is one of the people responsible for cellos turning up in so many bands and ensembles over the past 30 years or so. Find out where he's going and why and why the huge rise in the popularity cellos have found. We'll miss him.

In this episode we had the immense pleasure of welcoming David Eby back to our podcast to delve deeper into the incredible work that he is doing in the music community. David has an inspiring and freeing approach to music making, and shares with us how we can cultivate a state of being that allows us to truly connect to the music and our audience from a place of joy and love. This episode left us both with warm open hearts. David Bio: David Eby received his Bachelor of Music degree and Performer's Certificate from the Eastman School of Music where he studied with Paul Katz of the Cleveland Quartet. He went on to earn his Masters of Music degree from Indiana University where his principal teacher was Janos Starker. He is the founding cellist of Pink Martini and his recordings include Sympathique with Pink Martini, Mystic harp 2, Secrets of Love, Relax: Meditations for Flute and Cello, Song of the Nightingale and the Finding Happiness soundtrack for Hansa Productions.  In 2001 he became the Music Director at the Ananda Village in Northern California where he explored the realms of music, consciousness, inspiration, discovering the steps for achieving a consistently inspired performance. David is the cellist of the Bodhi trio, and performs with the Oregon Symphony and Portland Cello Project. He is on faculty at Lewis and Clark College, is a Teaching Artist for the BRAVO Youth Orchestra and is the director of the Advanced Strings at Oregon Episcopal School. He lives in Southwest Portland and teaches Workshops for the Inspired Musician. Show Notes: Princeton- Sound Journey Lewis and Clark  Bill Neill Autobiography of a Yogi Tedx Talk  David playing conceret with Speigle im Speigle  Brené Brown- Atlas of the Heart 

While in Europe, Broderick met and worked with a wide variety of composers, singers, and songwriters including Nils Frahm, Greg Haines, Laura Gibson, Yann Tiersen, Olafur Arnalds, and Lubomyr Melnyk.Broderick was by this time an in-demand session player, engineer, and producer, but kept up a steady stream of his own work on EPs, singles, and film scores, and he accepted composition commissions for dance and the theater. Broderick provided half of many split recordings, including 2009's Blank Grey Canvas Sky with Machinefabriek, 2010's Apple Bobbing At ___ with Penelope Joy, and 2011's Glimmer with Takumi Uesaka. In 2010, Bella Union released his full-length How They Are. From 2010, Broderick's level of activity was matched only by the number of requests for his time from other artists. He contributed to 19 recordings in 2010, 12 in 2011 (including Oliveray's Wonders, one of his projects with Frahm), and ten more in 2012. He and Frahm also completed and released the first album of a three-year undertaking entitled http://www.itstartshear.com. (Interestingly, the artist withdrew from having any kind of social media account.) Broderick also issued the EP Two Songs for Banjo and Voice and the single "I Will Play This Song Once Again" b/w "These Walls of Mine" that year.Broderick was equally prolific in 2013. Among the ten recordings he contributed to were Mark Kozelek and Jimmy Lavalle's Perils from the Sea, Melnyk's Corollaries, and Nadja's Flipper. He also issued the Broderick & Broderick EP and the full-length Float: 2013 Addendum, and he scored director Rodney Evans' award-winning film The Happy Sad. The following year saw the artist move back to Portland for a time and play on recordings by Portland Cello Project, Aidan Baker, Sharon Van Etten, and Sean Flinn & the Royal We. Erased Tapes issued the Broderick and Haines split dub offering Greg Gives Peter Space, The Album Leaf (Featuring Peter Broderick) was self-released, and the eponymous Peter Broderick + Gabriel Saloman was issued by Beacon Sound.While Broderick played on over a dozen records by other artists in 2015, his own recording and touring activities were equally intense. He collaborated with French artist Félicia Atkinson as La Nuit to release Desert Television and issued the EPs X Luzern and COTN RMXD and the acclaimed full-length Colours of the Night. In 2016, Broderick cut the stripped-down piano-and-voice album Partners with Tucker Martine. (Inspired by John Cage's writings, it featured a reading of the composer's "In a Landscape.") He also produced Brigid Mae Power's acclaimed self-titled Tompkins Square debut album. The pair were married shortly thereafter and moved to Ireland. Broderick continued his productive work rate into 2017 with the release of All Together Again, which collected his commissioned works from the previous decade.https://www.peterbroderick.net/  New Music from East Forest! -"Possible" - the latest album  from East Forest - LISTEN ON YOUR FAVORITE STREAMING PLATFORM: Spotify / ApplePre-order the album on vinyl - limited edition - and check out the new Possible clothing: http://eastforest.org *** Support this free podcast by joining the East Forest COUNCIL on Patreon.  Monthly Zoom Council, Podcast exclusives, private Patreon live-stream ceremony, and more.  Check it out and a great way to support the podcast and directly support the work of East Forest! - http://patreon.com/eastforest *****Please rate Ten Laws w/East Forest on iTunes.  It helps us get the guests you want to hear.  ***Catch East Forest LIVE - Pledge your interest in the upcoming East Forest Ceremony Concert events this Spring/Summer 2021.  More info and join us at eastforest.org/tour Join the newsletter and be part of the East Forest Community. Listen to East Forest guided meditations on Spotify & Apple Check out the East Forest x Ram Dass album on (Spotify & Apple) + East Forest's Music For Mushrooms: A Soundtrack For The Psychedelic Practitioner 5hr album (Spotify & Apple). Stay in the East Forest flow:Mothership:  http://eastforest.org/IG:  https://www.instagram.com/eastforest/FB:  https://www.facebook.com/EastForestMusic/TW:  https://twitter.com/eastforestmusicPATREON: http://patreon.com/eastforest

BEN SOLLEE is Kentucky-born cellist, singer-songwriter, and composer known for his innovative playing style, genre-bending songwriting, electrifying performances, political activism, and wide appeal. Like his contemporaries Chris Thile and Abigail Washburn, Sollee's music is difficult to pin down. It's Ben's quality of narrative and presence on stage that unifies his musical influences. This past year Ben has performed at Carnegie Hall, wrote the score for the documentary film Maidentrip, toured for two weeks in Europe and returned to the United States to perform with the Charlotte Ballet. THE PORTLAND CELLO PROJECT has wowed audiences all over the country with extravagant performances. Since the group's inception in late 2007, the group has built a reputation mixing genres and blurring musical lines and perceptions wherever they go. No two shows are alike, with a repertoire now numbering over 1,000 pieces of music both expected and unexpected to come from a cello. The Cello Project's stage setup ranges from the very simple (4-6 cellos), to the all out epic (which has included 12 cellos playing with full choirs, winds, horns, and numerous percussion players). WoodSongs Kid: Lily Murphy is 15 years old and from Midway, Kentucky. She started playing cello in the 7th grade with the orchestra.

078 Gideon FreudmannGood morning! This is Play It Like It’s Music. I’m Trevor, thanks for listening.On Wednesday, March 10th of 2021 music is not content, it’s connection.It’s March Madness! As in, I’m going mad over here. There is so much life-stuff interfering in my musical life right now. It’s a weird feeling when you’re a trained professional in something with solid marketable skills that you’ve always used to live by. And then gradually the market and technology conspire over time to make you out as a hobbyist. What was that degree for again? At least I don’t have loans, but it’s maddening. Not like I need to be a musical factory worker, but more and more these days it’s just a giant neverending free obstacle course you run all the time: sending out emails to strangers, courting likes on the ever growing number of platforms, watching kids run circles around everybody and also get sad because you can’t just go to a club these days. Music feels like a figment of our imagination without the live component, video games are more immersive, netflix is more engaging, sports are more connective and the news will give you a run for your sanity any old time you turn it on. So who - including us - has any time to do music or listen to it anymore?Not trying to be a downer here, we all grow up and no one gets a pass on basic life skills like earning and knowing where to draw lines.I’m grateful for the space I’m in, the health I enjoy all day long, sunshine, sound and creativity which just won’t leave me alone these days. We have a great musician to speak with today.Gideon Freudmann, cellist and composer, has been on the forefront of our instrument's modern creative expansion for more than 30 years.A formal education at the University of Connecticut laid a solid classical foundation for what has become a diverse soundscape encompassing a wide range of musical genres. He’s been at this for way longer than it was trendy. In fact it’s his mission to make the cello hip, modern and fun. He’s toured all over the place, worked in lots of small ensembles, he’s a founding member of the Portland Cello Project and the band Caravan Gogh… he’s one of those guys who, if you’re into the cello you definitely know who he is.And if you’re not, then you’ve probably just heard him a bunch of times without knowing it. His work is all over NPR: All Things Considered, CarTalk, This American Life. Movies too, Good Morning America… everywhere. Gideon lives to Portland, Oregon in the mid-2000s where he is a founding member of the Portland Cello Project. He has also branched into live soundtrack accompaniment to silent films. He’s a great musician, a great cellist, a great guy and I’m very glad to have him on the show.Let’s get to it!Press PLAY above to hear my conversation with Gideon Freudmann.Or subscribe in your podcast app: Apple Podcasts - Spotify- Stitcher - TuneIn - Overcast - PocketcastThanks so much for listening to Play It Like It’s Music. Thanks so much to Gideon Freudmann for spending some very generous time with us. You can find him at CelloBop dot com and follow him on Facebook @cellobop.I can’t believe we’ve gotten to 78 shows! We’re going to put this show on indefinite hiatus after two more interviews. Nevertheless if you believe this show deserves a wider audience or you want it to continue in the future, please help create even more demand by telling a friend:Follow me on twitter @trevorexter and talk to me on there if you have thoughts.We're all contending with a mutating professional landscape, jacked revenue streams, a catastrophic global pandemic and plenty of other noise out here.But you gotta keep playing.We don't draw any lines here between scenes or styles.As always, thank you for listening and remember to play it like its music.You can check out my NEW instrumental records on bandcamp, and I hope you will. Volume 3 is coming out April 1st.Sign the mailing list on substack to get my music sent right to you the very moment it comes out. Music is a beautiful thing and it makes the world go round.Big love to your ears.Trevor(Did you press play yet?)...Do you like this stuff? Please help it grow by sharing it!DID YOU KNOW you can take lessons with me online!Hear all of our guests in rotation on “Playlist It Like It’s Music” (Apple/Spotify)Hear my songs: the “Trevor Exter Playlist” (Apple/Spotify)Vibe out, here are 200 songs I like: (updated regularly on Spotify)Sign the mailing list!Hire me to produce your podcast.Follow me on IG TW FBMore @trevorexter.compsst… sign up for emails: This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit playitlikeitsmusic.substack.com

However Improbable is a new podcast book club about Sherlock Holmes! Join your hosts Marisa & Sarah to hear more about who they are, what they’re planning, and why on earth they’re releasing a podcast devoted to 56 short stories and 4 novellas about a fictional detective, released over 130 years ago. Our first episode comes out October 1! Mystery, Mormons, and a few murders - join us to hear the beginning of A Study in Scarlet. Find transcripts: https://www.howeverimprobablepodcast.com/transcripts. Find us online: https://www.howeverimprobablepodcast.com/ https://twitter.com/improbablepod Music credit: The song “Denmark (Live)” by the Portland Cello Project is featured with an Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

In Part 2 of this episode of "Live with Squacky", professional voice actress and podcast host, Val Kelly continues her conversation with voice actor, "VO Strategist", Tom Dheere. From how to surround yourself with good people to Tom's love of peanut butter cups, we cover it all!! So grab a pencil and join us for this interview jam packed with valuable VO info!Tom has narrated thousands of voiceover projects in just about every genre like Commercials, Video Games, Cartoons, Explainers, Corporate, eLearning, Medical Narration, Audiobooks, and more. Tom is a voiceover business and marketing consultant who can help you navigate the maze that is the voiceover industry. For more information, or to contact Tom, visit his websites at https://tomdheere.com/ or https://www.vostrategist.com/. Or connect with him on Twitter @TomDheere, Instagram @dheeretom or on Facebook. For more info about the "Portland Cello Project", check out their website at https://www.portlandcelloproject.com/**"Live with Squacky" is mixed and mastered by everybody's favorite Voiceover tech, Uncle Roy Yokelson of Antland Productions. For more info about "Uncle" Roy or to contact him, visit www.antlandproductions.com**For more information about the "Mini MAVO2020" online conference taking place on November 6-8, 2020 and to register today at the best price, visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mini-mavo2020-tickets-107849019320

In this episode I talk to Emily Anne About her career ending diagnosis as a Cellist, as well as how she managed to get through it and what she is doing today to overcome her situation and how she is  helping  others. Emily Anne's Bio: In 2013, Emily Ann Peterson was diagnosed with a degenerative neurological hand tremor, which forever altered her two-decade livelihood as a cellist, string-arranger, and cello teacher. Refusing to lose her life's love of musical expression, in an act of neurological defiance she accepted an award of a 6-week artist residency to write new music in the Cascade Mountains of the Pacific Northwest. "My grief broke through a creative glass ceiling I never knew existed." says Peterson. She returned from the mountains with an armful of songs, some of which fans can now find on her self-titled EP release from 2014. While touring the US, her interactions with new audiences prompted a question, "If they say I'm brave, then why does this still feel like fear?" Thus began her research which spanned over 2 years of interviewing everyday heroes in pursuit of the true meaning of bravery. These conversations led to Peterson's discovery of the 12 ingredients of bravery, which are reflected in the brazenly honest guidance of her bestselling self-help memoir, Bare Naked Bravery: How to Be Creatively Courageous. By practicing the concepts in her book, readers are able to fully "show up" in the world -- learning to cope with medical conditions, breakups, divorce, depression, and a multitude of other challenges.  Her long-awaited, debut full-length folk-pop album, Covered in Clover, released in July 2019. Emily Ann Peterson co-produced the album with Gary Mula, former owner of the Dutchman and Calleye studio -- an early rehearsal space for grunge legends Nirvana and Mudhoney. She called upon other members of her musical family in Seattle, WA -- including Eric Howk of Portugal. The Man (Atlantic), Andrew Vait of the band SISTERS (Tender Loving Empire), Jess Alldredge (Gospel Song/Tooth & Nail), Alina To of Passenger String Quartet, Coltan Foster and Scott Morning (Origin). Together they tracked 9 songs in a historic burlesque venue, The Columbia City Theater -- the perfect setting for a choir of horns, sweeping symphonic references, and melodies that only a former cellist could compose. Since recording Covered in Clover, Peterson relocated from the Pacific Northwest to Nashville, TN and has also found a home as a teaching artist and consultant. Fortune500 companies, executives, and tech startups seek out her expertise in creative courage, entrepreneurship, and growth strategy. Fans and audience members can find a place to belong online in The School of Bravery, a learning lab for life, career, and creativity. The school was founded by Peterson in 2018 and teaches students how to prepare, launch, and recover from their own seasons of bravery.  Emily Ann Peterson is a TEDx speaker and an alumnus of the Rawls College of Business at Texas Tech University. She currently holds or has held membership in the Northwest Symphony Orchestra, Seattle Rock Orchestra, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (The Grammys), and the Suzuki Association of the Americas. As a collaborative recording artist, performer, string-arranger, and songwriter she has had the honor of working with Sera Cahoone (Sub Pop), Anaïs Mitchell, Shelby Earl, Shannon Stephens (Asthmatic Kitty), The Portland Cello Project, Rosie Thomas (Sub Pop), David Bazan (Barsuk), Karin Stevens Dance, Barcelona (Universal), and many others. Learn more and join her community at www.emilyannpeterson.com.   Here is where you can find me:   nowheretogobutupnow@gmail.com   instagram: @nowheretogobutupnow   Linktree:   https://linktr.ee/Nowheretogobutup    

In this episode I talk to Emily Anne About her career ending diagnosis as a Cellist, as well as how she managed to get through it and what she is doing today to overcome her situation and how she is  helping  others. Emily Anne's Bio: In 2013, Emily Ann Peterson was diagnosed with a degenerative neurological hand tremor, which forever altered her two-decade livelihood as a cellist, string-arranger, and cello teacher. Refusing to lose her life's love of musical expression, in an act of neurological defiance she accepted an award of a 6-week artist residency to write new music in the Cascade Mountains of the Pacific Northwest. "My grief broke through a creative glass ceiling I never knew existed." says Peterson. She returned from the mountains with an armful of songs, some of which fans can now find on her self-titled EP release from 2014. While touring the US, her interactions with new audiences prompted a question, "If they say I'm brave, then why does this still feel like fear?" Thus began her research which spanned over 2 years of interviewing everyday heroes in pursuit of the true meaning of bravery. These conversations led to Peterson's discovery of the 12 ingredients of bravery, which are reflected in the brazenly honest guidance of her bestselling self-help memoir, Bare Naked Bravery: How to Be Creatively Courageous. By practicing the concepts in her book, readers are able to fully "show up" in the world -- learning to cope with medical conditions, breakups, divorce, depression, and a multitude of other challenges.  Her long-awaited, debut full-length folk-pop album, Covered in Clover, released in July 2019. Emily Ann Peterson co-produced the album with Gary Mula, former owner of the Dutchman and Calleye studio -- an early rehearsal space for grunge legends Nirvana and Mudhoney. She called upon other members of her musical family in Seattle, WA -- including Eric Howk of Portugal. The Man (Atlantic), Andrew Vait of the band SISTERS (Tender Loving Empire), Jess Alldredge (Gospel Song/Tooth & Nail), Alina To of Passenger String Quartet, Coltan Foster and Scott Morning (Origin). Together they tracked 9 songs in a historic burlesque venue, The Columbia City Theater -- the perfect setting for a choir of horns, sweeping symphonic references, and melodies that only a former cellist could compose. Since recording Covered in Clover, Peterson relocated from the Pacific Northwest to Nashville, TN and has also found a home as a teaching artist and consultant. Fortune500 companies, executives, and tech startups seek out her expertise in creative courage, entrepreneurship, and growth strategy. Fans and audience members can find a place to belong online in The School of Bravery, a learning lab for life, career, and creativity. The school was founded by Peterson in 2018 and teaches students how to prepare, launch, and recover from their own seasons of bravery.  Emily Ann Peterson is a TEDx speaker and an alumnus of the Rawls College of Business at Texas Tech University. She currently holds or has held membership in the Northwest Symphony Orchestra, Seattle Rock Orchestra, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (The Grammys), and the Suzuki Association of the Americas. As a collaborative recording artist, performer, string-arranger, and songwriter she has had the honor of working with Sera Cahoone (Sub Pop), Anaïs Mitchell, Shelby Earl, Shannon Stephens (Asthmatic Kitty), The Portland Cello Project, Rosie Thomas (Sub Pop), David Bazan (Barsuk), Karin Stevens Dance, Barcelona (Universal), and many others. Learn more and join her community at www.emilyannpeterson.com.  

Back in 2006, a group of cellists in Portland got together for what they thought would be a one-off performance at the Doug Fir Lounge. It wasn't. Rather, it was the beginning of a long and expansive journey featuring over a hundred different members and well over a thousand different pieces of repertoire.

Back in 2006, a group of cellists in Portland got together for what they thought would be a one-off performance at the Doug Fir Lounge. It wasn't. Rather, it was the beginning of a long and expansive journey featuring over a hundred different members and well over a thousand different pieces of repertoire.

Peter Broderick is a prolific, genre-defying American musician, composer, and producer. He is known internationally for a diverse range of solo projects, collaborations, and compositions for cinema and dance. A gifted multi-instrumentalist who is equally versed in a wide range of styles, Broderick's extensive discography -- on a range of labels including Bella Union, Erased Tapes, Staalplaat, and Beacon Sound -- is appended by a massive list of credits that reads like a who's who of 21st century independent, classical, and experimental music.Growing up in a musical household in Portland, Oregon, Broderick learned to play several instruments. After graduating high school, he became a session musician, contributing violin, banjo, musical saw, mandolin, and other instruments to recordings by M. Ward, Zooey Deschanel, Dolorean, and Norfolk & Western, among others. His self-released debut EP, 4 Track Songs, appeared in 2006. Via his MySpace page, he befriended Danish band Efterklang, and in mid-2007 he moved to Copenhagen to work with the group. That same year, Docile, his first album of solo piano pieces, was issued by Kning Disk. Float (Erased Tapes) and Hope (Bella Union) followed in 2008. While in Europe, Broderick met and worked with a wide variety of composers, singers, and songwriters including Nils Frahm, Greg Haines, Laura Gibson, Yann Tiersen, Olafur Arnalds, and Lubomyr Melnyk.Broderick was by this time an in-demand session player, engineer, and producer, but kept up a steady stream of his own work on EPs, singles, and film scores, and he accepted composition commissions for dance and the theater. Broderick provided half of many split recordings, including 2009's Blank Grey Canvas Sky with Machinefabriek, 2010's Apple Bobbing At ___ with Penelope Joy, and 2011's Glimmer with Takumi Uesaka. In 2010, Bella Union released his full-length How They Are. From 2010, Broderick's level of activity was matched only by the number of requests for his time from other artists. He contributed to 19 recordings in 2010, 12 in 2011 (including Oliveray's Wonders, one of his projects with Frahm), and ten more in 2012. He and Frahm also completed and released the first album of a three-year undertaking entitled http://www.itstartshear.com. (Interestingly, the artist withdrew from having any kind of social media account.) Broderick also issued the EP Two Songs for Banjo and Voice and the single "I Will Play This Song Once Again" b/w "These Walls of Mine" that year.Broderick was equally prolific in 2013. Among the ten recordings he contributed to were Mark Kozelek and Jimmy Lavalle's Perils from the Sea, Melnyk's Corollaries, and Nadja's Flipper. He also issued the Broderick & Broderick EP and the full-length Float: 2013 Addendum, and he scored director Rodney Evans' award-winning film The Happy Sad. The following year saw the artist move back to Portland for a time and play on recordings by Portland Cello Project, Aidan Baker, Sharon Van Etten, and Sean Flinn & the Royal We. Erased Tapes issued the Broderick and Haines split dub offering Greg Gives Peter Space, The Album Leaf (Featuring Peter Broderick) was self-released, and the eponymous Peter Broderick + Gabriel Saloman was issued by Beacon Sound.While Broderick played on over a dozen records by other artists in 2015, his own recording and touring activities were equally intense. He collaborated with French artist Félicia Atkinson as La Nuit to release Desert Television and issued the EPs X Luzern and COTN RMXD and the acclaimed full-length Colours of the Night. In 2016, Broderick cut the stripped-down piano-and-voice album Partners with Tucker Martine. (Inspired by John Cage's writings, it featured a reading of the composer's "In a Landscape.") He also produced Brigid Mae Power's acclaimed self-titled Tompkins Square debut album. The pair were married shortly thereafter and moved to Ireland. Broderick continued his productive work rate into 2017 with the release of All Together Again, which collected his commissioned works from the previous decade. ~ Thom Jurek, Rovi PeterBroderick.net

In the sixth episode of this series, we're joined by Charlie Campbell, formerly of Portland band Pond, and Douglas Jenkins from the Portland Cello Project. First up, we hear from Charlie on his favourite song pick, what it was like playing and touring with Elliott during the '90s, and he also mentions one or two regrets he has about the time they spent together. We stick with the Portland theme with Doug, who is the artistic director of the Portland Cello Project. His group are a collective of cellists, who play music you wouldn't typically associate with the instrument and, a few years ago, they released an album called To E.S. featuring six Elliott Smith covers. Doug tells us more about the Project and Elliott's enduring influence in the city. We round this all off with a listener pick from Sara Robertson and a quick update on more Elliott Smith 50th birthday tribute shows. Extra things to look at/listen to: Needle in the Hay by Elliott Smith on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/1bFPKxP56XWDXJOwo3Kvfp?si=w83zlQ5MTYWfROC0eTkJ7w Elliott Smith self-titled album on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/0w0jXq1fLPMPCNsVmmxNnc?si=E4t-NCUYTn-CDQ2P45p9xQ To E.S. by Portland Cello Project on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/6yzEl0LeIcuxRtLqzfQmbm?si=13Gsu8f1QkS2Ta9y2Lg7-w Taking A Fall by Portland Cello Project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHNLJO0sQ1I Tickets for our 50th birthday Elliott Smith tribute show in London: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/elliott-smith-50th-birthday-party-tickets-63494629145?fbclid=IwAR0Xv5LJGIpFe0fySbPCB7u0Zt62SuGLL2k-04klFbuMV07E7n40GeXXqe8 My Favourite Elliott Smith Song is produced by Rob Comba and Elizabeth Withstandley. Find us on social media @myfavesmithsong. MyFavouriteElliottSmithSong.com (http://myfavouriteelliottsmithsong.com/)

OMN’S Coffeeshop Conversations at Artichoke Music is back…Artichoke is at 2007 SE Powell, a magical place full of musical instruments and musicians. It was around this time in 2016 that drummer/composer Tyrone Hendrix was on the podcast to talk about his album Rhythm On Life Vol. 1 and now he’s back to talk about Rhythm On Life Vol. 2…what’s different about this one and what’s the same. One thing different is that Portland Cello Project is on a track. Tyrone if one of the busiest drummers in town and with good reason! Let’s catch up with Tyrone Hendrix (of the Seattle Hendrix’ if you know what I mean).

In this episode, I'm really excited to speak with cellist David Eby and to dive deeper with him in a topic that we've only mentioned a few times on the show so far and that I feel is so important and can be extremely powerful in our experience as musicians!  I'm talking about pure mindfulness! We discuss the positive effects meditation and consciousness tools can have on our practice and performance.  Among many things, you will hear about the importance of adopting unprejudiced mindsets, how you can bring more flow and joy in your playing,  develop and effective automatic response mode when facing challenges in performance, and create inspired connection in your playing by accessing a higher consciousness using David's 4-step process. We expand on: Mindfulness and consciousness in our practice - how to use these powerful tools How he got to experience that state of oneness with music in his youth The transition to college and how difficult it was to keep that magic state of being while negotiating the demands and pressures of university How harsh judgment of self and others influenced him and eventually led him to a crisis The pivotal moment that led him to pursue meditation and how it changed his life and brought him back to experience pure joy and love of music again How he studied and explored different consciousness techniques and started incorporating them in concerts, reaching a state of flow in his performance How meditation and consciousness can help us reconnect with the joy and bliss in performance (and, as a result, improve our results) Different methods of meditation How training the mind to return to the breath in meditation is training our brain to focus The automatic response mode that can help us overcome challenges in performance Hush/Heart/Lift/Flow Technique for more inspired connection in performance: o   Hush: create dynamic stillness (inner and outer silence) to better hear and feel subtleties of music o   Heart: deepen intuitive perception - open chest and heart o   Lift: engage energy - creating upward moving energy o   Flow: focus with effortless pleasure     More about David: Website: http://www.davidebymusic.com/ YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/davidceby Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheInspiredMusician/   Biography Cellist, Director, Teacher and Author “Inspiration and music came into my life at age 6 when I announced to my parents that I was going to play the cello. By 16, I was drinking up inspiration from the Tanglewood and Aspen Music Festivals and sharing inspiration onstage as soloist with the Pittsburgh Symphony. I attuned my skills at the Eastman School of Music where I received the Performer's Certificate and BM under the tutelage of Paul Katz of the Cleveland Quartet. By the time I received my MM at Indiana University under the esteemed Janos Starker, my life was resonating unconditionally with the joy of music. My first position as Principal Cellist of the Evansville Philharmonic and the Owensboro Symphony Orchestras taught me about how to share this joy in the context of leadership. As the founding cellist for the musical storytelling troupe Tales & Scales, I helped inspire the imaginations of young audiences across the nation. An introduction to the West Coast awakened within me a profound yearning for the ocean and the mountains, and I arrived in Portland in 1996 to become the founding cellist for the internationally acclaimed band Pink Martini, as well as a cellist for the Portland Opera. By 2001 an inward calling had grown so strong within me that I left everything to become Music Director at the Ananda Village in Northern California, with the singular opportunity to teach and direct a remarkable group of meditators. Each week we explored more deeply the realms of music, consciousness, inspiration, discovering the steps for achieving a consistently inspired performance. We were able to duplicate extraordinary experiences of flow in performance—where time stands still and all that exists is the joy of the music. Hollywood made a dramatic entrance into my life in 2012 when I was asked to musically direct and produce the soundtrack for the film Finding Happiness featuring Elisabeth Rohm (LA Law, American Hustle). Soon thereafter, I arrived back in Portland, where I am currently teaching Workshops for the Inspired Musician, sharing what I have learned through this 18-year journey into music and inspiration. I've sought to capture my experiences of inspiration on recordings, and my discography includes Sympathique with Pink Martini, Mystic Harp 2, Secrets of Love, Relax: Meditations for Flute and Cello, and Song of the Nightingale for Crystal Clarity Publishers, and the Finding Happiness soundtrack for Hansa Productions. I currently perform with The Bodhi Trio, the Oregon Symphony, and Portland Cello Project, teach at Lewis and Clark College, direct the Advanced Strings at Oregon Episcopal School and am a Teaching Artist for the BRAVO Youth Orchestra. I live in Southwest Portland with my wife Madhavi, daughter Caitlin and our Manx cat, Maggie.   If you enjoyed the show, please leave a review on iTunes!  I truly appreciate your support! Visit www.mindoverfinger.com for information about past and future podcasts, and for more resources on mindful practice.   THANK YOU: Most sincere thank you to composer Jim Stephenson who graciously provided the show's musical theme!  Concerto #1 for Trumpet and Chamber Orchestra – Movement 2: Allegro con Brio, performed by Jeffrey Work, trumpet, and the Lake Forest Symphony, conducted by Jim Stephenson. Also a huge thank you to my producer, Bella Kelly!   MIND OVER FINGER: www.mindoverfinger.com https://www.facebook.com/mindoverfinger/ https://www.instagram.com/mindoverfinger/   Join the Mind Over Finger Tribe here!  https://www.facebook.com/groups/mindoverfingertribe/

Paula Poundstone, Toad the Wet Sprocket, and David Sedaris - just some of the acts to look forward to during the 2018-2019 season at the Weinberg Center. Host Colin McGuire and News-Post reporter Kate Masters sat down with Barbara Hiller, the marketing manager for the Weinberg, to discuss the year’s lineup and some of the shows she’s looking forward to the most. Some were expected (Maria Bamford, for instance) and some, like the Portland Cello Project, were not. But they’re all very different from Hiller’s former career as the director of marketing for the Mid-Maryland Musculoskeletal Institute. Hiller also had some great responses to some very silly questions, including the three people, living or dead, she’d most like to have dinner with. Two of her responses — Eleanor Roosevelt and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson — would make for some pretty interesting conversation.

Raised in Alaska by orchestra teachers, Annalisa Tornfelt is a fiddler, guitar player, singer-songwriter and teacher living in Portland, OR. She’s recorded with the Portland Cello Project, spent years touring in Black Prairie and her bluegrass band Bearfoot, and has collaborated with countless NW musicians. She is also a mother to Darian, age 17, and Rose, age 1. In this episode we discuss teenage motherhood, being raised in a religious household, touring with babies, having children 17 years apart and the complexities of identity and ambition. I spoke to Annalisa in August of 2017 in my home office in Portland, OR.

'I'm making fun of Mary' Stefan Sagmeister, The Gist, Susan Orlean, Tig Notaro, Jonathan Richman, Helen Eaton, George Winston, Portland Cello Project feat. Lizzy Ellison & Patti King, Joni Mitchell, Lynne Truss, Paula Wolfert, Arthur Alexander, 4 Stickman, Case Lang Viers, Barack Obama, Julia Galef, Ian Dury & The Blockheads, The Renegades, Patsy Cline, Brian Eno, Maggie Bjorklund, Ingrid Thorburn, Steel Impressions, Bedouine.

November 17, 2016 Back in the ole Coffeeshop again...World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW 18th and Glisan…and it’s not very old, but you know what I mean. I mean this is the 80th OMN Coffeeshop Conversation. This time I’m in the cupping room with Portland Cello Project’s (those are two url's) Gideon Freudmann, as you might expect, a cellist and composer. It’s the tenth anniversary for them and to celebrate they’ve got an amazing concert at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall on Friday, November 25. What were they then? What are they now? And what other projects is Gideon working on? A fascinating look back, look forward and a lot of the things you’ve always wondered about Portland Cello Project.

January 15, 2015 Skip VonKuske helped found Portland Cello Project, he's an original member of Vagabond Opera, he's in Groovy Wallpaper, he is cellotronik, He likes the way it looks capitalized and with a "k" on the end. This month he is celebrating his tenth anniversary of playing in weekly residency every Monday 7-9pm (free) at McMenamin's Edgefield. How is Skip regarded in the Portland music community? When he hurt his back and had to walk with a cane, people rallied around and held a benefit to help pay for his medical bills. He recovered from that. He seemingly never stops. His life is like his live samples, they just keep playing and adding to each other as he adds new layers.f This post is under the "Melting Pot" category. When OMN first started we held a contest to name it so we'd have a place for bands like PCP. Skip named it and won the contest. As always, our Coffeeshop Conversation took place at World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW 18th and Glisan in the cupping room:

As the idiocracy draws ever closer, we take a look a new spin on the reality show where nine strangers are picked to makes some tunes and get judged by...Spotify.After fifteen years, Australian sample kings The Avalanches return with their new album, Wildflower. Carrie's spawn joins us to discuss this comeback and drop some serious knowledge on our ass.To celebrate ten years of being awesome, Portland Cello Project have released their version of the Prince classic (because every Prince song is a classic) "How Come U Never Call Me Anymore". We've got a listen and a look for you to dig into before the group plays here in DC on 9/21.Show Notes"Universal, Sony And Warner Sign 9 New Acts… For A Spotify-Based TV Talent Show" [Music Business Worldwide]Learn more about The Portland Cello ProjectOfficial Site | Facebook | Twitter See the Portland Cello Project Wednesday, September 21st at Jammin' Java in Vienna, VA [BUY TICKETS]Check out The Portland Cello Projects video for their cover of Prince's "How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore" featuring Nafisaria Scroggins-Thomas on vocals, below. WildflowerThe AvalanchesKevin: PassPaul: Stream ItCarrie: Buy ItEva: Stream ItLINKSOfficial SiteFacebookTwitterInstagramLISTEN ONSpotifyApple MusicUpcoming Tour Dates See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Do you live in Toronto? Chicago? Milwaukee? Minneapolis? How about L.A.? Come see the Memory Palace live this May. SPOILERS BELOW Music * We hear Portrait Gallery from Luke Howard. * A smidgen of Julia Kent's lovely Dorval. * The incomparable Moondog's Gloving It pops up a couple times (as it tends to do around these parts). * Denmark by the Portland Cello Project rolls out for quite awhile. * John Lewis and Sacha Distel play the title track from their Afternoon in Paris album. * We hear To, from Zach Cooper's Styles Upon Styles. * There's a bit of Eine Kleine Gamelan Music from The Gamelan Son of Lion (seriously). * Ends on P, by Labradford. NOTES * The classic text on Charlie Faust is Lawrence Ritter's The Glory of Their Times:the Story of the Early Days of Baseball as Told by the Men Who Played It, one of the key texts of early baseball history, first published in 1966. * The definitive resource on Faust is Gabriel Schecter, who's written his biography for SABR, the Society for American Baseball Research, and a monograph called Victory Faust: The Rube Who Saved McGraw's Giants. * I also want to point you to Rob Neyer's lovely piece on visiting Faust's grave.

A genre-mixing, expectation-shattering ensemble of cellos that shares their unique sound and diverse repertoire.

“To really answer the question, what is a question, is a very good question.” -Dr. Zeray Alemseged   What we can do? That question confronts, inquires, investigates and challenges. And it, by no means, is simple to define. For this episode of Some Noise, we try and get to the bottom of questions and ask a bunch of different people, from a linguistics professor, an experienced LSD taker to a futurist: “What is a question?”   Show Notes: [00:05] “Hypnosister” by LUMP [02:30] Zeray Alemseged (TED Talk, 2007) [02:40] On the Discovery of Selam (CNN, 2013) [03:55] “Vibrant Canopy” by Blue Dot Sessions [06:25] “Insatiable Toad” by Blue Dot Sessions [08:10] Bio for Eve Clark A short film with the same score [13:15] “Denmark” by Portland Cello Project [19:20] More on The Stanford Prison Experiment (Los Angeles Times, 2004) [22:20] “An Introduction to Beatles” by Blue Dot Sessions [28:00] Howard Rheingold (@hrheingold) [28:25] KLIF Dallas Radio Broadcast of President John F. Kennedy’s Assassination [29:55] Virtual communities, the WELL and the Whole Earth Review (The Atlantic, 2012) [30:10] The Martian Report [32:00] “Inside the Paper Crane” by Blue Dot Sessions [33:45] U.S. crackdown on LSD (Chicago Tribune, 1964) [36:10] Robert “Rosie” Rosenthal (@rosey18) [37:20] The Mountain War (The New York Times, 1982) [38:50] “Wax Paper Jewel” by Blue Dot Sessions [44:55] Alexander Rose, Long Now Foundation (@zander) [45:15] The 10,000 Year Clock [47:00] “Inside the Origami Violin” by Blue Dot Sessions

BEN SOLLEE is Kentucky-born cellist, singer-songwriter, and composer known for his innovative playing style, genre-bending songwriting, electrifying performances, political activism, and wide appeal. Like his contemporaries Chris Thile and Abigail Washburn, Sollee�s music is difficult to pin down. It�s Ben�s quality of narrative and presence on stage that unifies his musical influences. This past year Ben has performed at Carnegie Hall, wrote the score for the documentary film Maidentrip, toured for two weeks in Europe and returned to the United States to perform with the Charlotte Ballet. THE PORTLAND CELLO PROJECT has wowed audiences all over the country with extravagant performances. Since the group's inception in late 2007, the group has built a reputation mixing genres and blurring musical lines and perceptions wherever they go. No two shows are alike, with a repertoire now numbering over 1,000 pieces of music both expected and unexpected to come from a cello. The Cello Project's stage setup ranges from the very simple (4-6 cellos), to the all out epic (which has included 12 cellos playing with full choirs, winds, horns, and numerous percussion players). WoodSongs Kid: Lily Murphy is 15 years old and from Midway, Kentucky. She started playing cello in the 7th grade with the orchestra.

Nancy Ives, our Cellist-in-Residence, introduces us to the outgoing and incoming artistic directors of Portland Cello Project. We talk about transitions, and favorite moments from the group's repertoire. This segment originally aired April 25th 2015.

In this segment (initially broadcast December 20th 2014), our cellist-in-residence talks about composing for the Portland Cello Project's new record, "to e.s." She also shares thoughts from colleagues about what happens during productive composition.

Our cellist-in-residence, Nancy Ives, invited in outgoing Portland Cello Project artistic director Doug Jenkins and incoming director Skip vonKuske to discuss the passing of the baton (bow?). While talking about some of the music they love covering (Skip loved playing Pantera, to his own surprise), they shared with us this unreleased track of their arrangement of Taylor Swift's massive hit "Shake It Off." If you're feeling gloomy, nothing will lift your spirits like this will. Listen to the full conversation here: http://www.opb.org/radio/programs/stateofwonder/segment/state-of-wonder-apr-25-2015/

In this segment (initially broadcast December 20th 2014), our cellist-in-residence talks about composing for the Portland Cello Project's new record, "to e.s." She also shares thoughts from colleagues about what happens during productive composition.

Today's show feels a bit rough around the edges — in a good way, like rugged-smelling aftershave or good-quality field-dressed jerky. OK, maybe it's not quite so chewy as all that, but every bit as satisfying. For links and more details about the stories below, visit our page: www.opb.org/radio/programs/stateofwonder/segment/state-of-wonder-apr-25-2015/1:21 - Etsy's IPO roils the waters among makers and sellers. Check out the great story our friends at "Rendered" produced about this!4:02 - A panel of the federal court of appeals issues a decision against The Slants' trademark case.6:19 - University of Oregon physicist/psychologist Richard Taylor has discovered that computers can determine a real Jackson Pollock from a fake based on mathematic patterns called fractals. 13:25 - opbmusic premieres a new video project with Oregon bands performing on location in state parks. It's called Road Sessions, and it's spearheaded by Weather Machine frontman Slater Smith.16:23 - "Oregon Art Beat" gets (hexen)beastly on the set of "Grimm." We talk with producer Jule Gilfillan about their special 30-minute documentary that will air on OPB TV this Thursday, April 30 at 7 p.m.21:36 - Writer Benjamin Percy grew up living off the land in rural Oregon. His new novel, "The Dead Lands," re-imagines wild places post-apocalypse, with a futuristic Lewis and Clark as our guides.30:09 - Cellist-in-residence Nancy Ives introduces us to the new artistic director of Portland Cello Project, and outgoing AD Doug Jenkins checks in, too. 36:31 - Encore! We listen back to our Classical Up Close event, as Oregon Symphony Musicians prepare for another season of free public events around metro Portland.

0:00: Intro 1:25: Portland Cello Project’s new album adapts the songs of Elliott Smith.12:00: Photographer Richard Mosse and cinematographer Trevor Tweeten bring their surreal war photography and video to Portland Art Museum.27:20: Writer Tom Spanbauer describes living with AIDS. 35:55: Broken Bells share their collaborative songwriting process.41:10: Pulitzer-winning novelist Richard Ford tackles race and other social issues on a micro level.46:45: Saul Bellow blasts political correctnessImage credit: Richard Mosse

PCP Artistic Director Douglas Jenkins and Larry Crane (Jackpot Recording Studios/Tape Op Magazine) talk to us about the new record they co-produced. "to e.s." includes both covers of and original music inspired by Elliott Smith compositions.